Jacqueline Quotes

Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but in its best form, impact investing prioritizes impact over returns and achieves outcomes that traditional investing cannot. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of the sky ... Flying got into my soul instantly but the answer as to why must be found somewhere back in the mystic maze of my birth and childhood and the circumstances of my earlier life. Whatever I am is elemental and the beginnings of it all have their roots in Sawdust Road. I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and stars. ~ Jacqueline Cochran

I know they say that a picture's worth a thousand words, but it's amazing how often those words tell the wrong story. ~ Jacqueline E. Smith

There is no such thing as perfect. But even if there was, I would pick you over perfection any day. ~ Jacqueline E. Smith

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

It's been my experience that those people who seem the most 'normal' are in fact the most dangerous. ~ Jacqueline West

Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

You have been with me all along, even when it hurt like hell you have been with me, because I love you. And when you love someone they are with you forever. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Place your truth on my hips. Don't tell me who you are. Show me with your sincerity, let me see the helplessness in your eyes, wrap your irreverence around me. I've been afraid. My freedom has been mistaken for frivolousness, my sexuality for carelessness. Double standards imposed with hypocritical fingers and incurious hearts. I've relinquished myself to the wrong ideologies. I'm tired of having to cover my vulnerability to protect others from feeling theirs.

Expose me, penetrate me with broad philosophies, let us collide recklessly with freedom. Steal my wild heart, but do not ask me to live under an umbrella when I like being soaked by the rain. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

They are called stuckerpillers because they get stuck together. They depend so much on each other even when they become unhappy living together. They can't leave each other because they've become one. They lose their own identity and then they get confused. They become helpless. When one stuckerpiller wants to go in one direction and the other stuckerpiller wants to go in the opposite direction, they end up pulling against each other, never really getting anywhere. ~ Jacqueline Edgington

I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much ... so, so much. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

How do you want to die, Admiral? We are D'Angeline. At the hand of numbers, or dreams? ~ Jacqueline Carey

For the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them. ~ Jacqueline Susann

You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you don't have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,
how to write down the feeling of knowing
that every dying person leaves something behind. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

Not trusting him and him not being trustworthy are two different things. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

There you go, being human again,' said the Doctor. He put an arm around Rose, and hugged her to him. 'It's not fair, is it, when we're forced into pitying someone we hate. Feels lik the world's turned topsy-turvy. But it's all right. You're still allowed to hate them. As long as you don't gloat at their downfall, that's all. ~ Jacqueline Rayner

When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet. Successful businesses serving the poor need more than investment capital. They also need infrastructure to enable effective distribution, strong regulatory systems, access to markets, technical assistance as they scale up, and more ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers ~ Jacqueline Carey

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape. ~ Jacqueline Patricks

This earth is seventy percent water. Hard not to walk into it. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

Lie or no lie, best friends were for life. Lie or no lie, best friends were irreplaceable. ~ Jacqueline Francis - Wanting To Remember, Trying To Forget

Let us suppose that someone is writing a story. From the world of conventional signs he takes an azalea bush, plants it in a pleasant park. He takes a gold pocket watch from the world of conventional signs and places it under the azalea bush. He takes from the same rich source a handsome thief and a chastity belt, places the thief in the chastity belt and lays him tenderly under the azalea, not neglecting to wind the gold pocket watch so that its ticking will, at length, awaken the now-sleeping thief. From the Sarah Lawrence campus he borrows a pair of seniors, Jacqueline and Jemima, and sets them to walking in the vicinity of the azalea bush and the handsome, chaste thief. Jacqueline and Jemima have just failed the Graduate Record Examination and are cursing God in colorful Sarah Lawrence language. What happens next? Of course, I don't know. ~ Donald Barthelme

Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie. ~ Jacqueline Winspear

Is the working mother selfish ? ~ Jacqueline Scott

Love should be easy. Life is hard. Relationships are complicated. But the love, that's the one thing we should be able to count on. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

I haven't tried this with anyone ... signifacant in a long time. It's never worked before."
"You haven't had sex before?"
"I have. But not with anyone i cared about or ... knew. One-time things. That's all."
"That's all-ever?"
"It's not like they 've been tons of them. There were more before, in high school, than there have been the last three years."
"Lucas? I said yes, and i meant it. I want this-as long as you have protection, i mean. I want this, with you. So this is okay. Please don't ask me to say stop."
"I want it to be better than okay. You deserve better than okay."
"You 're shaking, Jacqueline. Do you want to-"
"No." "I'm just a little cold."
"Better?"
"Yes."
"You know you can say it. But i'm not asking you to, this time."
"Good."
His earlier hesitation gone, he removed the last scraps of fabric we were wearing, fixed the condom in place, kissed me fiercely and rocked into me. ~ Tammara Webber

What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful? ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Don't blame yourself. You believed what he told you, because you trusted him. You're a warm, open, trusting person. And you're trustworthy. Trustworthy people like us always get screwed, because we expect other people to be like us. Don't let his bad behavior make you question yourself. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it. ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

Was this love in its purest form, unrequited yet all-consuming and unselfish? ~ Jacqueline Patricks

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights ... it had to be some silly little Communist. ~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

If we have learned anything, it is the horror that can happen when people don't think for themselves, but instead follow authority blindly. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

me. I don't want to have to feel grateful all the time. ~ Jacqueline Wilson

Imagine, my brother signed. Imagine if somebody built a bridge right outside our window and we could just walk across the highway and be on the other side. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

A trapdoor had slammed open at the edge of the arena, followed by another and another. Slowly, reluctantly, animals were forced through the gaps. Lions, tigers, bears. "Oh my!" said the Doctor, as the trapdoors slammed shut again. ~ Jacqueline Rayner

Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Life, ongoing life, is really what death rituals are about. Mourners who are fortunate enough to be enveloped in familiar traditions by family and caring friends can become revitalized and newly sustained by the process. Mourning traditions revive and animate memories and feelings. They satisfy a human need of validation and inclusiveness; that is, we need to feel that we are an acceptable part of a larger whole. We bid farewell to those who have gone to another dimension, and by sharing memories of the deceased, people reinforce feelings and even beliefs about the deceased after the veil of death is drawn closed. ~ Jacqueline S. Thursby

I am a woman above everything else. ~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently. ~ Jacqueline Carey

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme ~ Jacqueline Carey

Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

We are connected, but the weave is sometimes fragile. (192) ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars. ~ Jacqueline De Ribes

As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, we need to find better solutions that will include everyone in today's opportunities. (197) ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system ... ~ Jacqueline Ripstein

I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

It's easier to make up stories
than it is to write them down. When I speak, the words come pouring out of me. The story
wakes up and walks all over the room. Sits in a chair, crosses one leg over the other, says,
Let me introduce myself. Then just starts going on and on. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

Happiness is a frightening state of being. If we let ourselves be happy, then there is something that can always be taken from us. In one minute, one second, everything can change. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

The world began in ending, and it will end in beginning. ~ Jacqueline Carey

[Maisie] "Tell me, Dr. Dene, if you were to name one thing that made the difference between those who get well quickly and those who don't, what would it be?"
[Dr. Dene] " ... In my opinion, acceptance has to come first. Some people don't accept what has happened. They think, 'Oh, if only I hadn't ... ' or ... 'If only I'd known ... ' They are stuck at the point that caused the injury.
" ... I would say that it's threefold: One is accepting what has happened. Three is having a picture, an indea of what they will do when they are better or improved. Then in the middle, number two is a path to follow. ~ Jacqueline Winspear

I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big blank space where I should be. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. ~ Jacqueline Cochran

When someone shares their distress or their inadequacies, the natural inclination is to comfort them. To mollify. When we do this we brush over their emotions, often because they make us uncomfortable. Most times, people don't want a blanket. They want someone who is willing to stand outside and shiver with them in the cold. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Your unavowed atrocities kill you from the inside out. What is the compulsion to tell the truth if not a moral compulsion? Jacqueline Delon had asked. She was wrong. It's a survival necessity. You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do. The power of naming, as old as Adam. ~ Glen Duncan

I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

I want to be bold and courageous; I want to take ridiculous risks; I want to live every moment with appreciation and consciousness and I want to dance all the time - even when I am not dancing ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

My sister's clear soft voice opens up the world to me. I lean in so hungry for it. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

How do you know? How do you know you're a real boy? You might be a story in a book," Ahimsa challenged. "That's it! You're a Jack-in-the-Book and only pop out when the pages are opened," he scoffed. ~ Jacqueline Edgington

Character contributes to beauty. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

The biggest mistake new homeschooling parents make is going into it with an 'all or nothing' mentality. That's a lot of pressure for something you've never done before... ~ Jacqueline Wilson, The Homeschool Super Freak

I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

To me, the act of writing itself is infinitely more important than any success I have achieved through it. Not that I'm knocking success, but after all, I'm the person locked in front of my TRS 80 anywhere from eight to twelve hours a day. ~ Jacqueline Briskin

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally. ~ Jacqueline Emerson

Having sex with her had been a catalyst, new flesh for the virus to feed on. No matter how hard he tried to block her out, she was always there at the back of his mind. Calling him. Begging him to go to her. ~ Jacqueline Francis - The Journal

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Sometimes people don't get a chance to say good-bye, Stag. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

You have to face your nightmares, Jack. You have to unpack them like you would open up a gift. You must take your nightmares out of the box you've stuffed them into so you can learn what are lies and what is the truth. ~ Jacqueline Edgington

The depression we find ourselves in here, and which is causing havoc in America, is allowing people to give weight to that which divides them, rather than to the shared experiences and elements of connection they see mirrored in their fellow man. ~ Jacqueline Winspear

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? ~ Jacqueline Carey

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.' ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

I'm not the kind of girl who spends hours getting ready. I don't blow dry my hair. And I hate make up. I'm not pretty. And I don't want to be. I am passionate and restless and wild. I'm exhausted by prudent ideologies. I'm not inferior because of my lack of convention. I'm as strong as I am broken. I'm tired of having my sexuality mistaken for an invitation. I will sweat and I will run. I will let the rain come down on me. I want to feel life as I am. I don't want to skate through having my immoderation controlled by weak judgements. By fear.

I don't want to be who I'm supposed to be, I want to be who I am. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

She said she'd chosen Santa Cruz because when se walked around the campus, she blended somehow, no one asking if she was part Negro, no one accusing her of passing for white. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

On a potential husband, All I ask is someone with a little imagination, but they are hard to find. ~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

He loves her for all of the reasons you were afraid to. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is - without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom - of just being - living as our authentic self. We are our true nature. We are one and whole. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

We are eternally Spiritual Beings, even in human form. ~ Jacqueline Lunger

When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Wolfgang von Goethe:A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days. ~ Jacqueline Winspear

You know... It's been a long time since I've been that nervous."
"You were nervous?" I ask. "Why?"
"I'm making love to a romance author," he explains with a grin. "Your standards are high."
"My standards are fictional. ~ Jacqueline E. Smith

Too often people view idealists as naive. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him. ~ Jacqueline Susann

I think it's best if I reserve judgement on the perpetrator of this crime. If I jump to conclusions too soon, I might well blind myself to the right path when it's in front of me. ~ Jacqueline Winspear

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side - if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time - when I was young and free and living. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock. ~ Jacqueline Carey

It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.' ~ Jacqueline McKenzie

It is all we can do to try. It is enough. ~ Jacqueline Carey